skite

"Perhaps you think I'm off on the skite again, but I'm not."

From In Accordance with the Evidence by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

P'r'aps we 'ave 'ad some skite knocked out, an' p'r'aps we see more clear, But seems to us there's plenty cleanin'-up to do round 'ere.

From Digger Smith by Hal Gye

"To eat skite" is to talk or act foolishly.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

What's the Greek for tobaccy?" they continued—"or for Larry O'Toole? or for bletherum skite?

From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

His "skite" had cost him a good deal of money, and he intended to make good some of the loss by economising on his marriage.

From In Accordance with the Evidence by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

So he looked at Kaylajan and Kurajan and skited in his bag-trousers.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Eh, lad, but you’ve been walking widdershins: You’d best turn deazil, crook your thumbs, my callant, And gather cowgrass, if you’d break the spell, And send the old witch skiting on her broomstick.

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

I saw you in town this morning, skiting about, from pillar to post, and says I to myself, 'There's uneasiness under that fine bonnet!'

From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable

"Come, Philip, me strong protector," he called, "let's be skiting."

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter